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Sibyll, the young girl in this portrait, was the only child of Anne and George Wilson, early patrons of Romney. Sibyll died in 1773, aged just six, and her sorrowful parents commissioned this tender commemorative portrait of her as if she had returned to console her grieving mother. The portrait was delayed by Romney’s sojourn in Italy between 1773 and 1775 and was probably not finished until 1777. Its austere, sculptural quality betrays his study of ancient funerary marbles while in Rome.
Title
Ann Wilson (née Harrison, 1734–1811) and Her Daughter, Sybill (1766–1773)
Date
1776–1777
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 124.5 x W 100.3 cm
Accession number
B1983.1
Acquisition method
Paul Mellon Fund
Work type
Painting
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